Onion Layers?

"Be---cause"

"be---cause" [1] (a morning thought; 4th July 2011; Ganesh Bagler)
> a grammatical conjunction.
> an internal mental fabrication.
> almost an execution order (Let this 'be' the 'cause'!).
> calls upon the external agent(s) and/or process(es) [2].
> (what follows it is often) inconsistent with even the known facts; let alone invoking the unknown facts.
> (precedes) construction of a narrative (story) around an outcome, postfacto. [3]
> (comes with) a priori belief [4] in the proposed cause/narrative.

[1] See the essay by Nigel Goldenfeld, in the Edge Question Center 2011.
[2] Putting the cause outside one's self; not owning up.
[3] The idea of a 'narrative'/'story' by N N Taleb in his book The Black Swan (Chapter 6).
[4] Spinozan model of belief as in: Daniel Gilbert, "How Mental Systems Believe", American Psychologist, vol. 4, no. 2, pp 107--119 (1991).

Three moments in my life

Running the "Halb Marathon 2009", Berlin.

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"Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move."

 (From the script of the movie "Avatar"--Writer and Director: James Cameroon)

Thing that makes the bell ring.

 "At one time most of my friends
could hear the bell.
But as years passed,
it fell silent for all of them.
...

Though I've grown old...
...the bell still rings for me.

As it does for all who truly believe."

(Excerpt from the script of movie "The Polar Express")

Poetic Scribblings: 30 Nov 2010

हर वक़्त ज़िन्दगीके,
दायरेपे खड़ा हूँ |
क्या पता किस कदम,
उसे लांघ जावूँ |

Ganesh Bagler(30 Nov 2010; Diary Notes)

Gravity

"Why is thought, being a secretion of the brain, is more wonderful than gravity, a property of the matter?—Charles Darwin
(Ref: "Phantoms in the Brain"—V S Ramachandran; pp. 227)
(Links to: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon)

"But, is gravity a property of matter or a product of secretion of brain!?"—Ganesh Bagler